Puff-barrette.



W. S. BECHTOLD.

PUFF BARRETTB.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3, 1910.

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WILLIAM S. BECHTOLD, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

PUFF-BARRETTE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 3, 1910.

Patented Feb. 14, 1911.

Serial No. 564,787.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that Ll/VILLIAM S. Bncn'ronn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Putt-Barrettes, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to barrettes or hair ornaments, and particularly to a barrette adapted to be inserted in the hair between adjacent putts, whereby the same may be worn with this particular coifl'ure and at the same time keep the pufi's rigid.

The nature of my invention will be best understood in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view showing the pull-barrette in place. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the puff-barrette. Fig. 3 is a view of the under side of the same. Fig. 4 is a section taken on the line 1l, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is an elevation of a modification. Fig. 6 is a section taken on the line 6--6, Fig. 5.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Referring now to the drawings, Figs. 1 to 1, 10 designates the back or body portion of the barrette, curved to conform to the head of the wearer and provided on its under side with a hinge piece 11 and a catch 12. A pin 13 is pivotally connected to the hinge piece 11 and is adapted to engage the catch 12, whereby the barrette may be locked to the hair in the usual manner. Sides let flare outwardly from the back or body portion 10 and are concave toward the hair-putts 15 over which they partly extend the back or body portion 10 being secured to the hair between two such adjacent puffs. The barrette is thus held between two adjacent puil's either vertically as shown in Fig. 1; or, horizontally, when the pull's are located in a hi'n'izontal position.

Figs. 5 and (3 illustrate a modification, the back or body portion being practically eliminated, the sides being simply bent up into position from a piece of the material. The pin 13 is bifurcated in this embodiment and is adapted to lock in the double catch 16, the hinge-piece 11 and catch 16 being suitably secured to the ridge 1? of the barrette, which ridge cooperates with said bifurcated pin to hold the barrette in the'hair.

By the above described constructions a barrette may be worn with this particular coifl'ure, is firmly held in the hair and serves at the same time to retain the pulls in position and to keep them rigid.

I claim A pull -barrette comprising a concave back or body portion and means cooperating therewith to secure the same to the hair, and sides to said barrette extending outwardly and upwardly from the said body portion and substantially the entire length of the same, said sides being concave on their inner faces to receive. massed hair and to secure the said barrette against lateral displacement.

Signed at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey this 28th. day of May A. D. 1910.

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